Bitcoin private key translate from bash to perl

Question

I'm working on a Bitcoin brain wallet generator in Perl. I wasn't able to generate the private key (import format).

I have found a very simple bash script to generate the private key, and I will like to have it translated to Perl so I can make the key generation entirely on Perl.

Can someone help me to translate the following bash code to a Perl sub?

#!/bin/bash
base58=({1..9} {A..H} {J..N} {P..Z} {a..k} {m..z})
bc <<<"ibase=16; n=${1^^}; while(n>0) { n%3A ; n/=3A }" |
tac |
while read n
do echo -n ${base58[n]}
done

Answer 1

use bignum; # Get arbitrary precision arithmetic

# base58=({1..9} {A..H} {J..N} {P..Z} {a..k} {m..z})
my @base58 = (1 .. 9, 'A' .. 'H', 'J' .. 'N', 'P' .. 'Z', 'a' .. 'k', 'm' .. 'z');
# ibase=16; n=${1^^};
my $n = hex($ARGV[0]);
# while(n>0)
my $result = "";
while ($n > 0) {
  # n%3A, tac, and echo ${base58[n]} (hex 3A == dec 58)
  $result = $base58[$n % 58] . $result;
  # n/=3A
  $n /= 58;
}
print "$result\n";